Hello all,
I am back after a long hiatus from this forum. A lot of devices have come and gone since I left.

Here is my predicament and wanted to get some advise from Zune HD users. I love the product but looking at the dwindling ecosystem I am wondering if I should still invest in the device.

I have a Zune HD and its audio jack is failing. I can send it in for repair for $60 (2nd repair of its kind) or buy a used 32 GB Zune HD for ~$140.

I have recently made my way into the Zune Community only to find that Microsoft has decided to drop all of our play-counts and badges.

The main reason I want to stick with the Zune is this: I have a lot of WMA Lossless music of CDs I ripped over time which don't play well on the Samsung S3.

Should I continue to buy a Zune device? Instead of the 32 GB should I try to get a Zune classic device?

Marvin the Martian

03-27-2013 01:23 PM

Jump ship and grab something new.

Convert your WMA Lossless to FLAC or ALAC for more hardware compatibility, or do some lossy conversion and just use lossy on your portable player(that's what most of us here do) and keep your WMA-Ls on the computer as archival copies.

I did convert a FLAC to WMA-L once and it played on my Cowon X9, but that's no guarantee that yours would work.

JSP62

03-29-2013 08:45 AM

Whatever you choose, I'd be interested to know. I am Zune 32HD user and love it. It was the best priced device for what I wanted. I had looked at the Cowon's which are really nice, but there too pricey.

You had mentioned your earphone jack connection needed to be fixed and mentioned it would cost $65. Can you let me know where this can be done? I recently had to purchase s new one because my old Zune had the same issue. I found the cost to order the part was expensive and didn't want to chance installing. To send out and have fixed for $65 is a good deal.

Thanks.

negative1

04-29-2013 06:43 PM

jumping ship

i'm an old member of this forum who hasn't been around for awhile either.